Fossil's watches pack decent hardware, but the slightly-too-high prices are causing people to turn away and go for more mainstream options. It's a good thing, then, that Best Buy is offering price drops of up to $110 on three Fossil second-generation smartwatches today. These discounts are the biggest we've seen on these watches yet, and they definitely make the Q Marshal, Q Wander, and Q Founder more enticing.

All three watches sport Snapdragon Wear 2100 processors, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, 22mm bands, and IP67 certifications. But while the Q Marshal and Q Wander have 45mm casings, AMOLED displays, and 360mAh batteries, the Q Founder has a 46mm body, an LCD display, and a battery whose capacity cannot be found anywhere on the Internet. The Q Marshal and Q Founder have stainless steel bodies.

The Q Marshal and Q Wander both come in four color variants, but only one of each is discounted by 40% to the $153 price (blue/brown for the Marshal, rose gold for the Wander). The Q Founder is only available in black/gray color on Best Buy's site, so that's what you're getting the 40% discount on, making the price $165. If it were my money, I'd go for the Q Marshal; that blue/brown color scheme is pretty good-looking, and it offers current specs and a stainless steel body for only $153. But if you want any of them, you'll have to hurry, as this is Best Buy's Deal of the Day.

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Flat tire... I just ordered a Domino DM368, full android watch, if the battery life doesnt suck, it should be pretty nice, 1GB/16GB only $99, AMOLED, no flat tire, on sale from GearBest.

Prezes Dyrektor

Hey it actually looks pretty decent that domino, how come we never hear about stuff like that, and only outdated big brand overpriced crap..

jeffmd

From a quick look at them, they appear to use mediatek processors running full versions of android but a skin that looks very much like android wear. However you don't run android wear apps, no WatchMaker, and no optimized features like ambient mode. It just turns the display off. So you have almost no 3rd party support.

A.i. Wintermute

It takes some tinkering to get it to where you want it. But it has a lot of features that you cant get on android wear. Yea, ambient is missing, thats my biggest complaint and battery life is pretty weak, but you can get through a day. Nice things like being able to use widgets on your watch face, very cool! And asking google a question and getting a verbal response and ACTUAL google page results, VERY COOL. I am running Google Now Launcher on mine with a nice clock widget for main watch face.

bābā ghanūj

Got a similar model a months ago, since I was curious. It sucked...a lot.

A.i. Wintermute

What part sucked about it? I have had other android watches and I have an LG URBANE, which I love. I like the always on display of the URBANE, but there are lots of nice features with full android that you cant get in Wear.

bābā ghanūj

Just the whole interface in general. Full android on watches isn't great...but on a round watch it is really bad. Apps crashed a bunch. Android Wear has its quirks, but it is light years ahead of these full Android china watches.

A.i. Wintermute

So far my Dm368 has been more stable than my LG URBANE, way faster too. I dont play games on it all day, I use it as a watch, I have a callendar widget and I use OK google to set alarms and timers. I am at 50% battery after 12 hours and that is with WIFI on all day, none of that BT crap where you take 5 steps away from your phone and your watch stops working...

A.i. Wintermute

I have had a bunch of these android watches, and they all sucked... But the new ones with Android 5.1 are way better.

A.i. Wintermute

Full android on a watch can be a little quirky, but they have really come along way. Specifically the fact that android wasnt designed for a round screen, so they added a feature that allows you to zoom out on screens that you need to access the corners. No 'always on' screen, like you get with Wear. But you can run any launcher you want, I run Google Now launcher with my favorite widgets available right from my watch face. :) I also love being able to say 'OK GOOGLE' and not only get a VERBAL response, but the actual google page results for the query.

How good are these smart watches for fitness tracking? How do they compare with something like Garmin Vivoactive HR?

Nolby

The Fossil watches are definitely not for fitness tracking. I have the Fossil Q Marshall, and although it's one of the nicest looking smartwatches I've seen, it doesn't have a heart-rate monitor, and doesn't even accurately track my steps. There are days where I look at my watch half way through the day, and my watch will still mark zero steps. I'm not the most active person in the world, but I at least take a couple of steps from my house to the car ect...